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If you’ve ever wanted to invite your Facebook Friends to a Group, Event, or Page – you know that in order to do so, you need to individually click on their avatars to invite them. Well… what if you want to invite ALL of your friends at once?

To date, Facebook hasn’t created a “Select All” button in an effort to make “spamming” your friends less possible – use this technique with caution.

Recently, I found a way to invite ALL of your friends with the help of a some javascript.

1. After you’ve clicked on “I’m Attending” on the Event (or after you’ve ‘liked’ a Page or ‘joined’ a Group – you’ll be given the option to suggest the Event, Page, or Group to your FB friends), you’ll see an option to  “Select Guests to Invite” (slightly different wording for Groups and Pages – hopefully you get the gist).

2. After you click on “Suggest to Friends,” a pop-up window will load and you’ll see a page with all of your friends listed, but they are ‘unselected.’

3. At this point, copy and paste the javascript code below into your Web browser’s address bar, then hit “Enter” – not in the Facebook Search bar – not in the “Find Friends’ search bar – but in your browser search bar (highlighted area).

javascript:elms=document.getElementById('friends').getElementsByTagName('li');for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

Once you’ve pasted that link and hit enter, you’ll notice that all of the avatars have been selected.

*Please note that the process can take upwards of two minutes to complete – depending on the size of your list. When I first tried to do this, I thought it didn’t work. What I quickly realized is that it just takes time to process. Be patient.*

It took me a few tries to figure it out, but once I did – the javascript enabled me to ‘Select All’ without the arduous task of clicking each avatar individually.